“Enforced disappearances may amount to a crime against humanity when perpetrated in certain circumstances,” warned the UN body recalling its general comment on the issue.
The Working Group is concerned that, according to the information received, hundreds of persons have been taken to undisclosed locations where they might have been submitted to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatments or executed. In most of the cases reported, the fate and the whereabouts of these persons are still unknown.
